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> It’s the sort of thinking that created this mess in the first place, considering civilized societies don’t even collect such a database of HIV+ citizens. The
by ahje 8y ago
> It’s the sort of thinking that created this mess in the first place, considering civilized societies don’t even collect such a database of HIV+ citizens.
The purpose of the database may very well be to allow the authorities to contact people with HIV when someone creates a new medicine against HIV, and so forth.
- shaki-dora 8y agoThat’s the job of doctors, not “authorities”. Does a Singapore also have databases of all MS patients on file? Or Huntington’s? Because those patients are far more desperate to learn about new treatments than HIV patients, who actually have rather good options today.
- thaumasiotes 8y agoThe purpose of the database is almost certainly to understand, when a new patient presents with HIV, where they got it from. Trying to answer this question is standard in the US as well.